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@Evil Multifarious‌ I find the field of translation fascinating for a lot of reasons. If you're reading a translation of a poem, for example, the chances of that person speaking the language with anything that would be called fluency is very, very slim. In fact, the worst translations are often done by people who have a deep understanding of the language, but no understanding of literature.

I'm not sure if this is the same for philosophy texts, but, having a passing familiarity with some , I imagine it helps tremendously to know just as much about literature as it does the language.

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I think it's kind of telling that if someone here had made a joke in similar taste about someone being trans, they would have had shit hurled at them but jokes about mental illness are a-ok.

Don't worry guys, you sure as progressive and tolerant as you think you are.

[Chat] might be more focused on trans issues than any other thing ever. Depression/mental illness is probably the third biggest obsession after unemployment. tbh its pretty doctrinaire, its just the ideology is (unevenly) tolerant and overall much more enlightened than most dogmas. Issue threads tend to be better. Chat is usually better when the topic is either not ideological or visited infrequently enough that there aren't "established acceptable positions." Jokes about genitals and gentrification are what chat is for IMO.

Borges said, in regards to translations of his work, "Translate what I want to say, not what I'm saying," which I think is pretty good advice. I remember reading about John Ashbery getting contacted about the difficulty of translating his work into French. He was often being told that there was no possible way to express what he was trying to say to which he replied, Those are often the things I'm most interested in saying."

A 49-year-old unidentified man went berserk last night, opening fire with a 12-gauge shotgun in a crowded downtown restaurant... Fighting broke out overnight between rival factions along the Israeli-Syrian border. Initial reports claim the Israeli fighters bombed a guerrilla base.

I think it's kind of telling that if someone here had made a joke in similar taste about someone being trans, they would have had shit hurled at them but jokes about mental illness are a-ok.

Don't worry guys, you sure as progressive and tolerant as you think you are.

pretty much everyone in here has a mental illness of some description

whereas only like 4 people are trans

you can make jokes about groups you're a part of but doing it about other peoples is 'cism

I was just using it as an example. I'm well aware of "punching up" and the different contexts around what it's ok to joke about with your friends, I just don't feel like mocking people who self harm is covered by that in this context

I was just using it as an example. I'm well aware of "punching up" and the different contexts around what it's ok to joke about with your friends, I just don't feel like mocking people who self harm is covered by that in this context

this client gets so confused about numbers and things
she's in market research but all these analytics we do tend to confuse her
and she really likes to latch onto demographics and racial things and cultural trends and sidetracks meetings with these random tidbits she read in the news i guess

i looked up her linkedin tho i guess her background is a PhD in American Cultural History at Brown

lol
so that explains that

now she is working at market research at a financial services company *shrug*